Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:24:24 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turn off FreeBSD 5.1 machine? completely? Message-ID: <40002738.1050606@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20040110135419.GA1190@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <71190286567.20040110152304@vkt.lt> <20040110135419.GA1190@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:23:04PM +0200, hugle wrote: > > > >>How can I turn off machine completely? >>cause it waits for CTRL+D of root pass.. >> > > <snip> >Alternatively, and only if you have support for apm or acpi in your >kernel and a compatible motherboard, you can type: > > # shutdown -p now > >which does exactly the same as 'shutdown -h' but goes on to power down >the system automatically. This is safe to use if your system doesn't >have the appropriate support -- it just halts the system but fails to >either power down or (I think) tell you that the system is down. > > You think correctly, according to my experience. A box (running 5.X) that doesn't support apm/apci simply acts as if you called "-h" instead of "-p". A Good Thing. Kevin Kinsey
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